GREAT IDEAS TO FIGHT POLLUTION

 

Technological progress is the application of scientific discoveries to production processes. Progress means that production costs are brought down or that new markets are born. Indeed, it is precisely the entrepreneurs who seek to invest in scientific research through an innovative spirit.

5 WAYS TO COOL THE EARTH

When we hear about global warming we worry about it, but rarely feel guilty. We believe that our contribute can’t really change the situation and we think – or we like to think – that our planet’s destiny isn’t in our hands. But, of course, this isn’t true: we are ruining our planet and it’s our duty to save it.

Here are 5 ways in which each of us can contribute to slow global warming and preserve the Earth.

JUST STOP OIL

 

         

               

On October 14th, two Just Stop Oil activists entered the National Gallery in London to throw tomato soup on Van Gogh’s famous painting “Sunflowers” before sticking their hands to the museum wall. The striking gesture went around the world bringing the spotlight on the environmental movement which, despite its recent creation, has been making headlines in the United Kingdom for months, not without criticism. 

IS THIS THE RIGHT WAY TO PROTEST?

 

Climate change is alarming nowadays and a lot of people are committed to the environmental cause. But these days, these people have turned into rioters and are definitely crossing the line.

 Watch what happened to Van Gogh’s “Sunflowers” at the National Gallery in London. 

5 ENDANGERED ANIMALS

 

  

 

Every day the destruction of habitats, illegal trade, poaching, pollution, climate change endanger the species of our planet more and more. Thousands of animals are seriously at risk of extinction: this is the constant denunciation of the IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature), which every year releases the Red List of animals at risk of extinction. 

THE 10 MOST POLLUTED PLACES IN THE WORLD

 

Travelling around the world is something that makes us know many beautiful places, like the Hawaii Islands, the Caribeans, California, or cities like Rome, London or Paris. These places  are really beautiful aren’t they? But the Earth has two sides. If we can see a lot of amazing places, we can also see very polluted ones, spread all over the world. Pollution has been caused by humans during the latest centuries, because of the industrial development.

WORLD WATER CRISIS

 

 

Water is the main source of life and without it we cannot survive. Nowadays water seems to us an inexhaustible good and we are used to wasting a lot of it, but in 2040 most of the world won’t have enough water to meet demand year-round. We’re at a real inflection point where if we’re not careful, we may get out ahead of our ability to manage it.

THE BLACK CAP

GLOBAL WARMING 

In 1896 Svante Arrhenius and Thomas Chamberlin evaluated that human activities would provoke an increase of global average temperature due to the production of high quantity of carbon dioxide. This prediction was ignored until the 1980s when the global annual mean temperature curve started rising steeply. Then, many scientists started pointing at it as the main cause of the global warming.

A REVOLUTIONARY DISCOVERY: GRAVITATIONAL WAVES

2017 Nobel Prize for Physics

Rainer Weiss, Barry C. Barish and Kip S. Thorne have won the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics. The three American scientists are members of the LIGO-Virgo collaboration that discovered gravitational waves in 2015. The price was awarded “for decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves” , the committee said in a news release.

DAMN, THE EARTH IS... MELTING!

Hi guys, today we will deal with an important topic which is changing our world: global warming. This phenomenon is creating many problems and troubles to our health and lifestyle, so, to fight it, we must know what global warming means and what it could cause in the future. First of all we must know that the global warming is caused by the extreme CO2 emissions in the atmosphere which are provoking the decrease of the ozone layer, the glacier melting, the deforestation and the climate change.

SUPER ... MOON !!!

A SUPERMOON is a coincidence of a full moon with closest approach the moon makes to the earth on its elliptical orbit resulting in the largest apparent size of the lunar disk as seen from earth.                                       

“Supermoon” isn’t actually an astronomic word but it makes the phenomenon visually clearer than thousands of words. When this happens … the moon becomes full at 14:52 but it can be found under the horizon. The moon rises at 17:18, when the sky is still dark.   

This video was made by NASA.

On 14 November 2016, the supermoon was 356,511 kilometres away from the centre of the earth. The next supermoon will be on 25 November 2034.

WHEN THE EARTH QUAKES …

… we are terribly scared, of course. It often happens, unfortunately, where we live, that is, in the centre of Italy. But what is an earthquake?

An earthquake is the percepitible shaking of the surface of the Earth, resulting from the sudden release of energy in the Earth’s crust that creates seismic waves. Earthquakes can be quite violent, they can throw people to the ground and destroy entire cities.

There have been several strong earthquakes in the last years in Italy. On April 6 2009, a magnitude 6.3 eartquake shook L’Aquila  killing more than 300 people and injuring 1,500 others. It damaged many buildings and landmarks, such as the medieval church in the picture (left). It hasn’t been completely rebuilt yet.